Imperialism

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Ohio on March 1, 2016. (AP Photo / John Minchillo) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To…

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Queen Elizabeth II poses for a photo with Donald and Melania Trump at Buckingham Palace in London, on June 3, 2019. (AP / Alastair Grant) Referring to “the red-carpet treatment” accorded to Donald Trump and the…

In Santiago, Chile, in the early nineteen-seventies, the writer Ariel Dorfman served as a cultural adviser to the Chilean President, Salvador Allende. There was revolutionary fervor in the air, and Dorfman, as he wrote in his 1998…

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from VFA 25 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 3. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Singley / US Navy via AP) Is it Iraq…

U.S. soldiers discuss tactics in Gabon, Africa, in 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alexandra Hays) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of…

NASA astronaut image of Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Archipelago, April 6, 2003. Public domain in the U.S. because it was created by the Image Science & Analysis…

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J.S. Pughe, Peace (1905). “We’re going to confront the national-security crisis on our southern border,” President Trump said on February 15, as he announced a state of emergency under the National Emergencies Act. “We’re…